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APPLICATION IQIQ, 1,325,651, Patented Dec. 23,1919.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31. I919.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2- a ix CHARLES H. PAJEAU, OFEVANSTON, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Deer 23, 1919..

Application filed March 31, 1919. Serial No. 286,605.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known-that 1, CHARLES HAMILTON PAJEAU, citizen of the United States, residing at Evanston, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to toys consisting of sectional elements connected by flexible members, its general objects being to provide easily manufactured sectional elements for such toys and to provide simple and effective means for assembling the sections and for maintaining them in their proper assembled relation.

More particularly, my invention relates to toy figures composed of perforated sections connected by means of cords, and aims to provide simple means for assembling and maintaining such sections in their desired relation with a small number of cords, and for concealing the knots in the cords. The constituent sections connected by the cords are desirably substantially spherical and my invention particularly lends itself to the assembling of beads or balls into figures simulating human beings or animals. For example,

- Figure 1 shows a toy figure of a man embodying my invention and having the cords arranged also for suspending the figure.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through Fig. 1, showing the disposition of the cords connecting the sectional elements.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through Fig. 1, looking upward from a line just below the juncture of the body with the arms. Fig. 4 is a view showing the method of assembling the parts of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing two forms of plugs suitable for use as parts of my invention.

Fig. 6 is a perspective View of a figure of a cat constructed according to my invention.

Fig. 7 is a. vertical section through an upper body member showing a simplified form of a body section for use according to my invention.

In Figs. 1 to 4 of the drawings, the toy of my invention consists of a series of wooden balls of suitable sizes connected to each other by two strings. The balls comprising each of the limbs have only a single axial perforation and the end ball on each limb desirably is recessed at its free end to house a knot in the end of the cord upon which the balls comprising the limb are strung. The balls comprising the body or torso have two parallel bores adapted to house relatively spaced cords and to prevent a rotation of the associated parts when the cords are tightly drawn up. Theupper or shoulder ball of the body also has a pair of transverse bores leading respectively from the longitudinal bores'to'side outlets, so as to accommodate the cords on which the arms are strung. For this past named purpose, the shoulder balls might be drilled longitudinally with two bores and transversely with a single bore intercepting these as shown in Fig. 7. However, with this arrangement, it would be exceedingly diificult to fish the cords for the arms transversely into the ball and then vertically in to the head, unless the vertical bores were of such a large diameter as to afford such an undesirably loose assembling of the parts, as to permit a rotation of the upper body member with respect to the head and the lower body member, thereby allowing these parts to swing out of proper alineinent. Likewise, even where no transverse bores are involved, as in the case of the lower body member and of the head member," it would be a slow and difiicult task to fish the cords through the bores if the latter were of such asize as to afford a fairly snug housing for the cords.

To overcome these objections, I desirably provide certain sections of the toy (such as the two body balls and-the head ball in the embodiment of Fig. 1)'with' longitudinal bores of so large a size that doubled cords with plugs or cores which restrict the perforations to bores of the desirable smaller sizes. The cores or plugs used.for this purpose may also be used for forcing the cords through the balls in which the plugs are inserted, thus expediting the assembly. For

example, in the embodiment of Figs. 1 to 4, I employ only two cords and first string may easily and quickly be fished through the same, and I then plug these bores partly opening at the top oi: the head.

and shape as to wedge in the bore of the lower body member 3 while leaving two opposed channels between its sides and the walls of the said bore, and force this plug upward into its normal position in lts body member. In'doing this, the plug pushes the Y looped middle portion of the cord through the cord. H ext, 1 slip another plug 5 under the projecting loop of the first cord and force this plug into the longitudinal bore in the upper bod member 6, in doing which this plug pusnes the loops of both cords ahead of it, so that these can be grasped and pulled farther, after which i slip a thirdplu Y under these two loops and push thiatipo plug into the single bore in the nead,

ereby rorcinoitbe loops throughthe By pulling upwai Ell these loops, 2 simultaneously tights .the'cords in. both the arms and the 1 1 ,3 legs, ,,-.ew1se drawing the body and scan.

members '"rto close c secutive cotact with ea h ct: 1', after h 1 can the cords at ti t o of th hear. I

To improve the appearance, I desirably make the plug 7 for the head member shorter a height the head, so to aiiord a recs. the top of the head housing at least a portifln of the resulting knot. Then the projecting loop portions may, desired, be used for suspending the figure after the manner oi Fig. 2.

i /ith the parts hus assembled, andeach plug of such size as to wedge an the bore into which it is driven, i readily obtain the equivalent oi"? twin bores smaller diameters than those t ough which. the cords could readily be fished, and "therefore am able to secure both a speedy assembling a firm connection of the various parts of the figure to one another. l nkewise, by using wooden turnings for all oi the tional elements excepting the plugs, l

able to construct toys of attractive appearance quite inexpensively. For the plugs or cores, i may employ simple dowels either flattened on opposite sides as shown at 2 in Fig. 5, or channeled as shown at 9 1n the same figure.- in either case, I can readily make the bores so'large as to expedite the assembling, while thereafter contracting these bores to the equivalent of perforations through which the cords could not readily be inserted. However, while I have described my toy as embodied in the figure of a man constructed or spherical sections, l. do not wish to be limited to these or other details of the construction and arrangement here disclosed, as the same might be modified in many ways without departing from the spirit of the appended claims. For exam le, Fig. 6

shows a similarly. constructed. gure of an animal also employing the principles of my invention. i

I claim as my invention:

1. A toy figure comprising perforate head, body and limb members, and flexible elements affording the connections th'erebetween and all extendingthrough the head and tightened from the topthereof, the said flexible elements extending respectively through the limbs of the figure.

2. A. toy figure comprising perforate head, body and limb members, and cords connecting the same; each of the cords extending through two limb members and being knotted at the free end of the latter, all of the cords extending through the portion or the body member adjacent to the head, and all of the cords being tightened from the top of the head.

figure comprising perforate head, body and limb Zllfllbfil'fi, and cords connectingthe same; each of the cords extending through two lim 5'1 members and idiotcords body the ori the he throu a the portion of to the head, and

toned from the top d beyond the head to afiord cans tor suspending the figure.

l. A. toy gure per claim 2, in which the terminal element of each. limb member is receased to house the in the cord extendins through the o. A toy figure per claim 1, in which the head is recessed its top, and in which the cords are tightened by almot housed by the said rec 6. a figure comprising perforate sections connected by cords, plugs respectively disposed in the perforations of thesections between the cords and the walls of the perforations for affording restricted bores in the said sections.

7. in a toy comprising sections connected by a cord, a section having a perforation through the same, and a core inserted in the perforation and having a side spaced from the adjacent wall of the perforation to aiford a relatively small bore for housing a part or the cord.

8. in a toy comprising sections connected by a plurality of cord portions, a section having a perforation therethrough, and a core wedged in the perforation and having a pair of sides s seed from the wall of the perforation to aftord restricted passages for the cord portions.

9. in a toy comprising sections connected by cords, a section having a pain of intersecting bores, a cord extending from the mouth of one bore into the latter and out through the other bore, and a core mounted in one of the bores for contracting the latter.

10. In a toy comprising sections connected by cords, a section having a bore of relatively large diameter with respect to the diameter of the cord, and means inserted after the passing of a cord through the said bore for contracting the latter.

11. In a toy figure comprising sections connected by cords, a shoulder section having a transverse bore slightly larger than, the cord and having a considerably larger longitudinal perforation, and a plug housed by the said perforation and having sides facing the transverse bore portions andspaced from the adjacent ends of the latter by a distance approximating the diameter of the cord.

12. Atoy figure comprising head and body sections each equipped with a pair of longitudinal bores,one of the body sections also having a transverse bore, plural limb sections each having a single bore therethrough, and a pair of cords forming the entire connection between the said sections, each of the cords being doubled on itself beyond thehead; one of the cords having its halves threaded respectively through the two longitudinal bores in the head and body sections and through the bores in the sections comprising a leg section; the other cord having its halves threaded respectively through the two longitudinal bores in the 'head section, through part of a longitudinal and of a transverse bore in the body section equipped with the latter, and through the sections comprising an arm.

Signed at Evanston, Illinois, March 26th, 1919. Y

CHARLES H. PAJEAU 

